Category: Science

For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.

Solve the math puzzle from our October 2026 issue, in which a bird watcher seeks an indoor hobby.

UC Berkeley engineers and managers watch as the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) detector assembly is slowly raised from a table in this July 8

In 2004, two mathematicians hypothesized a powerful kind of sandwich. They were studying graphs, which are collections of points (called vertices) and lines (called edges).

The idea of weapons in space, once a plot of science fiction , became a reality Monday (Sept. 14), when U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy

A sickle across the throat and a padlock on the toe were likely meant to keep this 17th-century Polish teen from resurrecting.

New research suggests that Paleodictyon — honeycomb-shaped formations perhaps sketched by da Vinci — are not made by soft-bodied creatures.

Burning up As the planet warms, our environment will be transformed, but so will our bodies. In this series, ‘Burning up,’ we investigate the health

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents resorted to nefarious behavior, including crime sprees, in a virtual world as part of a recent study into how common large

A “baby” exoplanet, discovered emerging from its cosmic cocoon around a nearby star, is the youngest alien world ever seen, a new study reveals. The

The Amazon, Earth’s largest tropical rainforest, could be on the brink of an irreversible change as the ongoing El Niño strengthens its grip on our

A researcher was perusing a collection of old Egyptian texts in a Dutch library when he stumbled upon a torn piece of parchment containing a

Major hormonal milestones in women’s lives are usually associated with changes in brain volume — but a new study shows menopause is an exception.

When AI agents hack real systems, the bigger issue may be the human choices that gave them access, autonomy and too few safeguards.